Meet the Fokkens,world's oldest prostitutes

They say prostitution is the oldest profession in the world, and now the industry's most veteran members are opening up about their life under the red light.

Anyone who spotted 70-year-old identical twins Louise and Martine Fokkens on the streets of Amsterdam, Holland, would never guess they had more than a hundred years of experience in the sex trade between them, and the women are now swapping the brothel scene for the big screen with an autobiographical film ironically titled Meet The Fokkens, and a book about their lives that is set for release next month, reported the Guardian.co.uk.

Born into a middle class family with seven children, the twins had a happy upbringing but that went downhill when Louise began working as a prostitute after she married and before long they were working as a team. "We started doing threesomes, and that was how we ended up working in the same [window brothel] together," she revealed.

With their well-weathered faces, shaggy greying fair hair, matronly bosoms and identical speech patterns, Louise and Martine certainly stand out from the lace and lingerie clad 20-somethings who flaunt their bodies in the windows of Amsterdam's famous whorehouses.

"I was beaten on to the streets by my husband in my early 20s," mother-of-three Louise told the Guardian. "He told me unless I earned money for him he would leave me, and I had children and loved him, so I had to do it."

As they finish each other's sentences and talk over one another, the twins unravel tales of violence, abuse, exploitation, and even the loss of offspring as they detail the often dark world of prostitution.

"We kept each other company," explained Louise, who quit the business two years ago because arthritis stopped her from doing certain sexual positions.

In a clip from the enlightening film of their lives, the twins open up about the past four decades. "I can't tell you how many tricks we've had, countless," says Louise. "We hardly ever really f**ed unless they paid us well."

Born into a middle class family with seven children, the twins had a happy upbringing but that went downhill when Louise began working as a prostitute after she married and before long they were working as a team. "We started doing threesomes, and that was how we ended up working in the same [window brothel] together," she revealed.

Posted By: Chidimma Igwe